Jai-Hyuk Hwang

Development of an electromagnetic shock absorber

In the present study, an electromagnetic shock-absorber (EMSA) is proposed for a landing structure of a spaceship. The proposed EMSA consists of a copper and steel combined tube, a piston, permanent magnets, and a steel ring. A magnet fixed on the piston is designed to move through the tube when driven by an external shock. Shock energy is partially dissipated by an eddy current damping force and a friction force generated from the relative motion of the tube and the magnet. Some of the energy is stored in a magnetic spring consisting of two magnets in which their poles act against each other. To investigate and predict the performance of the proposed EMSA these damping and magnetic forces are simulated and approximated by using an electromagnetic finite element program. Their approximations are verified by experimental results and the numerical model of the proposed EMSA is consequently developed. The proposed EMSA is fabricated and its performance is predicted and verified by the drop test.

Dynamic Characteristics of a Piezoelectric Driven Stick-Slip Actuator for Focal Plane Image Stabilization

The focal plane image stabilization for a satellite camera is one of the an effective method which can increase the satellite camera`s image quality by removing the motion disturbance of a focal plane. The objectives of this article are to introduce the concept of the focal plane image stabilization and determine the best driving conditions of the actuator for the response and thrust. Under various driving condition the experiments have been performed to investigate the response and thrust characteristics of the piezoelectric driven stick-slip actuator of the focal plane image stabilizing device. From experiments, the best driving frequency and duty ratio for the magnesium slider are 70 kHz and 27%, respectively.

A Study on the Vibration Damping of a Barrel Using Vibration Absorber

Advanced tanks in the future combat system are expected to have the trends of large caliber, high explosive shell and light weight for destructive power and improvement in mobility. Their guns are required to have longer barrels to meet increased muzzle exit velocities. However, as the length of the barrel is extended, the vibrations induced by the breech forces in fire and the terrain lead to increased muzzle pointing errors. Therefore, the fire-induced and terrain-induced vibrations must be attenuated. A method to reduce these vibrations without the significant increase of the gun mass is to use the forward thermal shroud as part of a tuned mass damper. In this study, the dynamically-tuned-shroud using this shroud and leaf springs is introduced and its effectiveness on the vibration attenuations of the barrel are verified. The parametric studies on the stiffness of these leaf springs are performed and the analytical results are verified using the experimental model of the dynamically-tuned-shroud.

On the Performance Test of the Piezoelectric-Hydraulic Pump

In this paper, the piezoelectric-hydraulic pump with a piezostack actuator as a driving source has been designed, fabricated, and evaluated for its application to UAVs brake system. The performance requirements of the piezoelectric-hydraulic pump were decided based on the requirements analysis of the target aircraft brake system. The geometric design of the piezoelectric-hydraulic pump to meet the performance requirements of the pump was conducted, and all components of the pump including the spring sheet type check valves were machined with close tolerance. By constructing a test apparatus for the performance check of the piezoelectric-hydraulic pump, the performance characteristics of the pump, such as the outlet flow rate for load-free condition and the outlet oil pressure for closed loop condition, have been evaluated. It has been found by the performance test result that the developed piezoelectric-hydraulic pump satisfies the design requirements effectively.

Optical Design for Satellite Camera with Online Optical Compensation Movements

ABSTRACT In this study, optical design for small satellite camera equipp ed with online optical compensation movements has been conducted. Satellite camera equ ipped with compensation movements at M2 mirror and focal plane can guarantee the MTF performance through the focal plane image stabilization and the on-orbit optical alignm ent. The designed optical system is schmidt-cassegrain type that has M1 mirror of a diame ter 200mm, GSD 3.8m at an altitude of 700km, and 50 % MTF performance. The performance of the designed optical system has been analyzed through the method of ray aber ration curve, spot diagram, and MTF. It has been found by the optical performance analysis that the designed optical system satisfies the optical requirements of s atellite camera equipped with online optical compensation movements. 초 록 본 연구에서는 소형 위성카메라의 영상성능 저하를 궤도상에서 능동적으로 보정하기 위해 광학보정장치를 적용한 위성카메라의 광학설계를 수행하였다. 2개의 광학 보정장치는 각각 부반사경 및 초점면부에 부착되며 총 5자유도의 운동이 가능하다. 본 논문에서 설계한 광학부는 슈미트-카세그레인(Schmidt-Cassegrain)타입으로 주반사경의 직경은 200mm이고, GSD 3.8m, MTF 성능은 약 50% 정도이다. 설계된 광학계는 수차곡선과 Spot diagram과 MTF를 통해 성능평가를 수행하였다. 수차곡선을 통해 광학성능에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 수차가 구면수차인 것을 확인 할 수 있고, MTF 해석을 통해서 나이퀴스트 주파수에서 MTF 30%이상의 요구 성능을 충분히 만족하는 것을 확인하였다. Key Words : Compensation movement(보정장치), MTF compensation(MTF 보상), Focal plane image stabilization(초점면부 영상 안정화), Optical alignment(광학 정렬), Schmidt-cassegrain type(슈미트 카세그레인 형태)

Experimental Study for Dynamic Characteristics of Eddy Current Shock Absorber

This paper is concerned with a new concept for the damper without neither a coil spring nor fluid. The new damper concept consists of the permanent magnets and the cylinder of the conducting material. The opposite pole magnets produces the repulsive forces and this is substituted for the coil spring. The relative motion between the magnets and conducting cylinder produces eddy currents thus resulting in the electromagnetic force, which turns out to be the damping force and is substituted for a damping fluid. This damper is called the eddy current damper(ECD). The important advantage of the proposed ECD is that it does not require any damping fluid and any external power and is non-contacting and relatively insensitive to temperature. In the present study, the proposed ECD was constructed and the experiments were performed to investigate its dynamic characteristics. The experiments shows that the proposed ECD has the excellent damping ability.

Online refocusing algorithm for a satellite camera using stellar sources

In this study, an online refocusing algorithm is proposed for a satellite camera performing an Earth observation mission. Satellite cameras are vulnerable to misalignment in orbit because of their severe launching environments and the thermal vacuum environment in space. The proposed online refocusing algorithm is able to guarantee high quality images by aligning the satellite camera in real time. This alignment is achieved by precisely adjusting the movement mechanism of the secondary mirror (M2) and the focal plane. The target optical system used in this study was originally designed for the purposes of algorithm development. The system uses a Schmidt-Cassegrain-type satellite camera with a 200-mm diameter primary mirror (M1). The ground sampling distance (GSD) is 3.8 m from an altitude of 700 km. A fourth-order equation model is derived for the modulation transfer function (MTF) variation tendency for M2 de-spacing. Following this, the proposed online refocusing algorithm for the target optical system is developed. The algorithm is able to assess the de-space position from the MTF measurements using stellar sources. It is determined from the simulation that any misaligned satellite camera can be refocused within a ± 0.5μm M2 de-space error by applying the proposed refocusing algorithm in real time.

On the Pressurization Characteristics of Small Piezoelectric Hydraulic Pump for Brake System

In this study, the pressurization characteristics of the small piezoelectric hydraulic pump for a brake system has been analyzed through modeling the full hydraulic pump components; the pump chamber, check valve, pump load, pump drive controller etc. To analyze the pressurization characteristics, the process of charging pressure in the chamber with stacked-layer piezoelectric actuator were firstly modeled. Secondly, the flow coefficient of the check valve in terms of valve opening has been calculated after computational fluid dynamics analysis, such as the pressure distribution around check valve and the flow rate, was conducted. Also the pump driving controller, which controls the input voltage to the actuator, was designed to make the load pressure follow the input pressure command. The simulation results find that it takes about 0.03ms to reach the operating load pressure required for the braking system. The simulation result was also verified through comparison to the result of the pump performance test.

Non-explosive Low-shock Separation Device for small satellite

This paper describes the development of non-explosive separation(NES) device which can be equipped on a small satellite. It comprises mechanism itself and spring-type shape memory alloy(SMA) actuator. In order to design SMA actuator properly, the necessary actuation force is measured. Based on that result, SMA actuator is designed and fabricated. Finally, SMA actuator and the proposed mechanism are integrated. In order to evaluate performance of the developed NES, we carried out a response time test, preload test and shock level test. In near future, we expect to replace the imported NES device with the developed device.

Vibration Suppression of a Cantilever Plate Using Magnetically Multimode Tuned Mass Dampers

For a few decades, various methods of suppressing structural vibration have been proposed. The present study proposes and exploits an effective method of suppressing the vibration of cantilever plates similar to the solar panels of a satellite. Magnetically tuned mass dampers (mTMDs) are a tuned mass damper (TMD) with eddy current damping (ECD). We introduce the mTMD concept for the multimode vibration suppression of the cantilever plate. The design parameters of the mTMD are determined based on the parametric study of the theoretical four-degree-of-freedom model, which was derived for a cantilever plate with TMDs. Two TMDs are optimized for the first bending mode and first torsion mode of the plate, and they are verified analytically and experimentally. To increase the damping performance of the TMDs, ECD is introduced. Its damping ratios are estimated analytically and verified experimentally.